In the practice of the world's oldest profession, the water fronts of Port Said or Shanghai have never hummed more briskly than do London's Piccadilly and gaudy, shoddy Soho. Day & night girls walk their dogs, soliciting. Police look the other way, make few attempts to check the prostitutes' health records. But only last week did British prudery permit a few ugly words to be spoken in public.
When U.S. and Canadian military authorities complained about prostitution, the British Government investigated, discovered a vicious increase in venereal diseases, decided the subject needed airing. The austere London Times quoted Sir Wilson Jameson,...
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